Course Syllabus

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Instructor Name: Jennifer Santry
Phone number: 970-389-8128 (texting is preferred)
Email address: jsantry@pencol.edu or jenevesantry@gmail.com
Office hours: By Appointment

Required Text: Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard - ISBN 978-1601730350. In addition, there will be a number of posted articles and readings based on weekly topics.

Course Description: This course focuses on the principles of sustainable agriculture for animal, crop, and garden production. Students will learn to make a farm, homestead, or garden a reality or to make current agricultural endeavors more sustainable, efficient, and profitable. Students will learn sustainable theory and be able to apply this to the nuts and bolts of market gardens, food forests, livestock management, and small farm operations.

Core concepts include sustainable agriculture principles; basic farm and garden production techniques; farm planning and managing; and various examples of sustainable agriculture (i.e. organic, holistic, permaculture, biodynamic, and agroforestry).